Greensmith finished the event 22.8 seconds behind Toksport WRT team-mate Nikolay G๊ryazin, who went quickest on all but two of the closed-road tests in an identical Skoda Fa🗹bia RS Rally2 car.

Not even a 10 second penalty that was meted out to the Russian by organisers for a jump start infringe♛ment on the second test was enough to deny him top spot from Rally Mexico WRC2 winner Greensmith.

Portions of the Quattro River Rally’s competitive route took crews through areas of the Zagreb region that will be revisited by the FIA World Rally Championship in less than a fortnight’s time for round four of th💖e competition.

For that reason, Greensmith and his stand-in co-driver Chris Patterson – who last sat 🏅together at Rally Spain in October 2021 when they were part of the M-Sport Ford squad and finished sixth overall – started the pure asphalt event.

“It has been a very useful few days, getting to learn the Skoda on Croatian road🍌s,” reflected Greensmith.

“We used the event to test different set-ups and despite some of the options n𝔉ot being optimum for the conditions, but important data was gained nonetheless.

“Looking to Croatia, we’ve a better idea of what we need to work on and improve to make the next step in our level of performanc🍌e.”

Northern Irishman Patterson was deputising for Greensmith’s regular team-mate Jona Andersson who was unavailable for the trip to the Baltic State. However, he will return to the navigator’s chair next t🍬ime out.

“The weekend went smoothly. Other than some tricky tyre choi🗹ces, we had no issues and the team did a great job,” said the experie🍒nced Patterson.

“The main goal for the weekend was for Gus to gain as much informatio♍n about the car set-up and how it handles these roads, which will be vita🍒l for him and Jonas at Croatia Rally in a few weeks.”